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Asymmetrical
Chairs:
Figured cherry veneers and solids,
figured anigre veneers, wenge, stainless steel rope, aluminum
21"w x 20"d x 48"h
These are some of my favorite chairs, and are as comfortable
as they are whimsical. The stainless steel rope cradles the
small of the back, even though it looks like it might cut you
like an egg slicer. My engineer friend Keith Komline helped
me figure out how to attach the stainless to the seats.
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Georgine's Stools:
Figured maple; 18" wide x 18"
deep x 48" high.
To compensate for my well-documented
deficits as a husband, I occasionally build furniture as a gift
for my wife. These are from Christmas of 2003. |
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Fainting Couch:
Figured maple, silk; 24" wide
x 30" high x 78" long.
I wanted to design something sumptuous
and luxuriant. This is just the thing for reclining and sampling
bonbons in the budoir. |
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Heart Chairs:
Figured maple, acrylic paints,
velvet; 20" wide x 20" deep x 36" high.
People seem to respond to this
fun, graphic design; I've been asked to make more of these than
any other piece |
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Providence Chairs:
Figured hard maple; 19" wide
x 19" deep x 36" high;
If furniture is all about function,
then chairs are where the rubber hits the road. These are designed
to be quite comfortable through a long dinner and still be worth
looking at afterwards. |
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Hudgens' Chairs:
Mahogany solids and veneers,
fabric; 24" deep x 28" wide x 34" high.
My designer friend Sally Gresham
asked me to copy a Russian antique for a Georgetown townhouse.
Her client was delighted with these big, comfy chairs. |
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Rocket Stools:
Figured maple, cherry; 18" high
x 18" round.
These stools are from my Buck
Rogers' period. I know they're strong because my toddler pushed
one down the stairs and it didn't break. |
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Ariodante Chairs:
Ebonized mahogany, ash, gold
leaf, fabric; 18" wide x 20" deep x 48" high.
I made these for a gallery in
New Orleans of the same name. The ash slats conform to your
back. |
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Mission Ariodante Chairs:
Cherry, leather; 18" wide x 20"
deep x 48" wide.
A customer with Mission sensibilities
asked me to simplify the Ariodante design; we arrived at this
chair. |
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Seeing Eye Chair:
figured cherry veneers, wenge,
purpleheart, gold leaf, velvet 36"w x 36"h x 32"d
I built this for the 25th anniversary
show for Frog Hollow, the Vermont state craft galleries. I had
in mind a kind of Egyptian throne. It now resides in the library
of a carpenter gothic home in Guilford, CT. |
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Shield-Back Chairs:
Figured maple veneers and solids,
padauk, East Indian rosewood20"w x 20"d x 32"h
I built these solid little chairs
for a show at Frog Hollow; they're a somewhat sleeker version
of the eighteenth-century chair of the same name.
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Step Stool
figured red oak, padauk; 9” high x 12” wide
x 18” long;
Sometimes it’s fun to take a common
object and add a little pizzazz. I woke up one morning and
had this image in my head. I wonder what I ate the night before? |
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Wing Chair and Croquet Mallet:
Mahogany, purpleheart, velvet,
aluminum, gold leaf (chair); cherry, purpleheart, figured red
oak, bronzing powders, leather (mallet); 17" wide x 19" deep
x 34" high (chair).
These items are for people who
have a pizzaz deficit in their seating or croquet spheres. |
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Breakfast Chair:
Ebonized mahogany, gold leaf;
16" wide x 18" deep x 32" tall.
I built these to complement
a breakfast nook in a customer's home. The chair, though simple,
is surprisingly comfortable because the angles are right.
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